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Every third weekend of November Peter and I open our home and studio to the public. It is turning out to be an exciting year with lots of new pieces that will be filling the walls. Along with music by Steve Sawchuk (classical guitar), hot tea from the the Tea Haus, and a guest artisan Christina Tischler who makes beautiful stamped jewelry. It will be an event you will not want to miss! So mark your calendars and come out and enjoy the experience.

Fall is a great time of year for us to get painting in the studio. We are getting ready for our Annual Open House Show in November. Here are a few pieces that I have already made for the show – stay tuned for more in the coming weeks.

We had a wonderful chance to paint the largest we have ever painted! Pathways, a non-profit that helps people gain new skills to get back into the work world, bought a new building that needed a little splash of colour…… and they thought of us! It took months to organize it all because it takes lots of people (the community and our family) to make something like this go well. Dulux donated all the paint and supplies, volunteers came out to help paint the first layer, and Cleanworks did all the clean up of the wall and anti grafitti coating. The results are wonderful!

Here’s the original watercolour mock-up that was selected to become the mural.

It took us a day to lay it out, with string lines, and light blue paint – we wanted the drawing to be easy to follow for the next step.

During this next phase, we had a group of really nice volunteers come and help us block in the basic colours and shapes. Our kids helped too – that’s Ivy up on the scaffold.

As the mural progressed Corinne and I took over and did a few days of hard painting in the sun. It’s a hot little parking lot!

Here’s some of the folks that helped us make this a reality – Dave and Josh from Dulux /PPG, and Christine from Pathways. Thanks for all your help!

And here’s a couple of shots of how it all looked once it was complete –

If you’d like to see the mural – it’s at 195 Horton Street London Ontario, across from the Boy’s and Girl’s Club, near Labatt’s Brewery.

Just preparing for the Home county Music and Art Festival happening this weekend July 15, 16 and 17. Incredible music and art there so if you are looking for something to do you want to check this out! http://www.homecounty.ca/

Here are a few pieces of art that Peter and I are going to have at the show! So you will get a sneak peak!

Well, it’s now just four days away from the Studio Tour – we’re busy cleaning out the house and hanging up the artwork. There will be lots of new paintings to look at – Corinne’s landscapes and my house themed paintings.

We’ll also have our daughter Emma helping out on opening night – how she’s grown – pretty soon she may be making art herself!

Also for the weekend we’ll have our friend Steve Sawchuk here filling the house with beautiful guitar music.

If you can make it out this weekend we (and all the other Studio Tour artists) would love to have you visit.

The Winter season passed us by with no updates – we’ve been busy with painting, and making commissioned artwork for a variety of people. We’ve also been able to make an assortment of new work for the London Artist Studio Tour, which is just around the corner.(April 15-17th)

Here are a few new pieces that you will see if you come and visit for this year’s Tour:

Field’s Edge, 16×20″, Oil on Canvas, Peter Karas

This was a fun piece, with a high vantage point and some variation in the houses. Nice and earthy, but bright also. Houses from Above, 18×24″, Oil on Canvas, Peter Karas

This piece has an extreme downward point of view, and three nice little cottages beside a lake.

Hamilton Escarpment, 36×48″, Oil on Panel, Corinne Garlick

Corinne and her friend took the kids to Hamilton last summer and visited this gorge and waterfall. A large work with lots of detail for the eye.

Things are “ramping up” here at the house in preparation for our Studio Show.

Peter is busy framing some new panel paintings, with lumber from his woodshop and will also be making a batch of new prints as well this week. We have a number of last minute paintings for the sale as well… have a look.This painting has been “gestating” for a while now – in may we got a piano from Corinne’s mother, and the kids have been taking lessons. I have always loved the challenge of painting hands – they’re very much like portrait painting. Quite a challenge.

This piece measures 10×30″.

This painting is part of Corinne’s ongoing landscape series – these trees were down at the new trail off of Orchard street, near to the Coves. (Corinne’s new fave walking spot.)

It is a 12×16″.

This piece is from the imagination. I sketched out a few houses with the thought of flying overhead. Lots of overlapped diagonals, and the warm/cool colours. And boats! Have been painting few boats lately, so this piece needed boats. 24×30″

This painting is from that same area of the Coves – it’s a lovely little walking trail, perfect for kids and dogs and getting subjects to paint. It’s a decent sized painting at 24×30.